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Charles Dickens

A Life

By:
Claire Tomalin

Narrated by:
Alex Jennings

Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
408

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
266

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
266

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life, the major new biography from the highly acclaimed Claire Tomalin, published for the 200th anniversary of his birth. Read by the actor Alex Jennings.

5 out of 5 stars

As lively a story as a good novel

The Ideal Social Reformer

Overall

5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-03-12

The industrial revolution in England produced opportunities for the rich and wealthy but a nightmare for the poor. Laissez Fair and exploitation of the downtrodden was the norm of the day. In these dark times the hope of light was Dickens' novels which exposed the tyranny, injustice and cruelty of the system under the garb of progress. He was the only English novelist who spoke against these malpractices and what he said he also acted upon. He opened shelter homes for the fallen women of Victorian England and showed to the people that authors did not live in the 'ivory towers' as Wordsworth said.
This biography is a befitting attribute to the services of Dickens and his glorious life.